Letting Go of God

Starring: Julia Sweeney

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Indefatigable, Inc.
• Director: Julia Sweeney
• Starring: Julia Sweeney
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; NTSC; Surround Sound
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lots of fun and great for discussion groups

Julia Sweeney presents a monologue on religions and religious people. She brushes with several religions and major alternative religious writers and speakers. However, she stays mainstream enough that you should be familiar with all of the references, some of which are just mentioned in passing. She only touches on the window dressing or superficial part of each religion or speaker and avoids any of the deeper or real focus of the religion. So long as you are not aware of the depth of the particular religion or writer in her critique, you can laugh and not think much. She does focus more on Catholicism, LDS, and Buddhism. One writer mentioned but glossed over is Joseph Campbell, who has a great body of work, and all she remembered is “Follow Your Bliss.” Transcendental Meditation,” if anyone remembers it got about four words; this could be a time constraint of the presentation. One part that I particularly found interesting was when Julia took a course in quantum mechanics; she found that people bandying around scientific words and trying to equate them to off-the-wall religions had no concept of physics and were found to be full of it. If more people took the time to take a course in quantum mechanics, people like Gary Zukav would starve to death. You may agree or disagree with Julia. However, the presentation is well worth watching and discussing.